On Tuesday our troops moved into this position, watched by those few men, left as scarecrows, who are now our prisoners, and who saw the English soldiers get up out of their ditches and shell-craters and cross the snowfield in open order with a steady trudge, their bayonets glittering, and then drop down into the battered trench in which there was nothing but the litter of former habitation and some dead bodies.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
I stood at an elevation of about 7000 feet, halfway to the summit of Mont Blanc, with the whole broad expanse of glacier and snowfield glowing in the rosy twilight; and, while I watched the sun set, at my feet lay the valley of the Arve, with the town of Sallanches and its attendant villages in the blue distance of gathering night, thousands of feet below me.
"The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I"
William James Stillman
Round about all is mute, As the snowfield on the mountain-peaks, As the sandfield at the mountain-foot.
"The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson"
Alfred Lord Tennyson